[...]o things throwing together in words is a kind of description attuned to what does not completely un="trms">fold but instead melds together with other unnamed but palpable things collected like a field of mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts.”

things throwing together in words ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> expressivity
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: collected (unnamed but palpable) things like mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspective='lgc'>: (an attending, enduring ="trms">presence, a com="trms">positional node,) perspectival ="trms">agency in which things jump into ="trms">relation but remain unglued='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ...across a field of subjects-objects-bodies-="trms">trajectories-="trms">affects


realm of killed off things


new figures i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's
="lsts lst1">•“throwing together”
="lsts lst1">•“manner of”
="lsts lst1">•


(in ="nms">ajayeb) the whale='lgc'>: throwing together of the ="trms">phenomena of fish and water, sailing, mood, atmosphere, and sensory charge

="large lg1" stl="font-size:116%"> ='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb's descriptive apparauses='lgc'>: a mutating realism of a certain vision of light meeting movement

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: things that were once named, perhaps ="trms">written down, (="trms">differently than now,) through some kind of trickery (called ="trms">citation,) and then ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metastasized (sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read throughout a body) into circulation (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings, ="trms">translations, etc.) are raised, incised, made singular and charged
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories/reports ='lgc'>~= forms of co-recognition, something witnessed that gets cooked down into something saucy='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">writing='lgc'>: a more-than-re="trms">presentational ="trms">method of ="trms">writing attuned to the qualities of ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">fabulations (appear as='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦(atmospheric) traces
="lsts lst2">◦(momentary) might-have-beens

="nms">ajayeb='lgc'> = people ='lgc'>+ ="trms">matter ='lgc'>+ real ='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*point of figuring com="trms">positional reals='strcls'>*


fast-forwarded throught great arcs of ='strcls'>*="trms">history-in-itelf='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*place-in-itself='strcls'>* in The Time Machine (2002 film)


what are the river and field doing now='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]theory='lgc'>: drawn through ="trms">writing into the ways that people and things venture out into ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reals='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a recursive haeccity (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
="lsts lst1">•transversal arrays of qualities or activities which, like musical refrains, give order to ="trms">materials and ="trms">situations, human bodies and brains in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and bone senses (Anderson ='lgc'>+ Harrison)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">mattering that is about the (="trms">contingent and temporary) becoming-determinate (and becoming-indeterminate) of ="trms">matter and meaning (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="lsts lst1">•built out of ="trms">difference and repetition (="ppl">Deleuze)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">composed of potentiality and loss (="ppl">Berlant)
="lsts lst1">•lean toward that which exists singularly as event, or as a gap, without ground or against the background of nothing (Dewsbury)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reality='lgc'>: a rhythmic alteration between objects, events, and words='lgc'>---an uncreated ="trms">world='lgc'>---='lgc'>{re="trms">verb between word and ="trms">world ='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]worling='lgc'>: a trans="trms">position of the existing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready possible in a ="trms">joke or a ="trms">gesture ='lgc'>--> singularities gathering and dissolving, ='at'>#tools='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•snapshots (shoot of an ="trms">affect)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fictocriticism (="trms">fiction ='lgc'>+ theory ='lgc'>+ criticism; a name for those “critical” inventions which belong to ="trms">literature while deforming its limits)
="lsts lst1">•sensory ethnography (ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment) ='lgc'>--> drawing
='lgc'>--> paths lit up in a rhythm ="trms">interrupted
(as an aritist) you can make anything of anything, the ="trms">questions is, what is it, what is it doing, what is in this consistency of rhythm='qstn'>?='lgc'>}

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: comprised of entities that are both ="trms">present and absent (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="nms">ajayeb), atmospheres, ="trms">affects, virtual ="trms">memories, hauntings, and that these are themselves moments of endurance (or not='qstn'>?), instants of the holding together of the disparate itself
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Doel)


='lgc'>[!='strcls'>* ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing the color='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*red='lgc'>: “it moves through streams and tendrils into an as="trms">sociational register of connections and ="trms">differences, ="trms">materials and noumena وجود مجرد, the coagulation دلمه شدن and diffusions of lines of influence and bits of ="trms">matter.”
(in my visual art studies we were given redness as a ="trms">symbolic element in a re="trms">presentational order and a ="trms">matter-of-fact) ='lgc'>=/= state-of-sensory-alert, redness as an actual com="trms">position spun into re="trms">presentations, objects, and states of sensory alert
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] a germinal ="trms">aesthetic. a tendril of practices and sensibilities gathered into an energetics of form
="lsts lst1">•black sky and ocean ='lgc'>--> limit, outline, elemental flux, ="trms">matter waiting formlessly
="lsts lst1">•white ice and snow ='lgc'>--> stasis, shape and form, a blankness that challenges com="trms">position, the ="trms">transitoriness
="lsts lst1">•red ='lgc'>--> the feebly real, the long, low-frequency wave-lenght of the dying stars, the ="trms">past, the effort to fix dead reality in a cast ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•green ='lgc'>--> plants that glare with a harsh reality, the violence at the heart of the ="trms">world we inhabite
="lsts lst1">•blue ='lgc'>--> a limited, temporary success in fixing experience in a pattern
="lsts lst1">•


a landscape animated by the primariness of color ='lgc'>=/= Molenbeek

american indians became “red” through a complex ="trms">semiotics of encounters with colonists


...who knows what kinds of desires, fears and dead ends

(pay attention to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list making ="trms">narrative='lgc'>:)
events, sites, actors, stakes, consequences, properties, competences, modalities, attunements, velocities


... a ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ephemeral sparks ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an atmosphere ='lgc'>==pulled='lgc'>='lgc'>==> qualities of ="trms">sociality, personality and ="trms">language out of people ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> spaces of care, territoriality, order, ="trms">horror


the stark mantras of re="trms">presentational critique='lgc'>: that the play of abstract ="trms">categories (real/fabricated, ="trms">nature/human habitat, ="trms">wild/tame, red/white, high/low, etc.) bloodlessly determine ="trms">worlds or adequately describe them ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{ everything is political='lgc'> = to always know what the political is ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--> ‘political’ ='lgc'>: something that exists in the big picture of broader significance, something strongly obvious (but not to most people!) that meanings can be automatically assigned to things and are the basis of those things’ value ='lgc'>-->!='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali

the effect of context

="trms">matters of com="trms">position, each with a “we”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•feeble نحيف
="lsts lst1">•experimental
="lsts lst1">•eccentric ='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen
="lsts lst1">•habitual ='lgc'>--> my mother
="lsts lst1">•generous
="lsts lst1">•="trms">gestural ='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•half turned away
="lsts lst1">•reached the expressivity of a mood, a tone of voice
="lsts lst1">•do they lighten things or load them down='qstn'>?

...a com="trms">position made explicit in the figure of ='strcls'>*the active survivor='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*the knowing ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader of impacts='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--> a watchfulness-turned-impulse that ends not on meaning but in the haptic, multi-angled, sensorimotor qualities of a ="trms">world's un="trms">imaginable detail
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Varinia) qualities sensorimotor ="trms">interactions with environments that are not reducible either to thoughts and ="trms">imaginings='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*richness='lgc'>: a s="trms">cene spied provides in="trms">finite detail beyond what you can invent ='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="trms">excess
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*bodiliness='lgc'>: the motions of the body ="trms">affect sensory input
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*insubordinateness='lgc'>: the ="trms">world has a life of its own; things moved by themselves
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*grabbiness='lgc'>: sensory impacts ="trms">matter apart from their cognition
='lgc'>--> having a ="trms">phenomenal experience is having ="trms">skills with these qualities='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>]


="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> an ="trms">ecology of potentialy marked by violence and care

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>]

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> we might='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•provide a better understanding
="lsts lst1">•provoke novel realities/="trms">ontologoes (to emerge from ="trms">material)
="lsts lst1">•provoke an understanding in the context of the everyday

='strcls'>*(="ppl">="ppl">Latour, ="ppl">Whitehead, Law='lgc'>:) ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological entity='lgc'> = ="trms">ontological entity (by ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> productive of reality


to focus on practices in which all possible elements of the process must be understood as active and creative (='lgc'>--> ='at'># ="trms">="trms">equipment ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list)

='strcls'>*“to take ="trms">seriously"='lgc'> = to accept at a fundamental level the truth of a claim and to doggedly follow its consequences
(form an ="trms">ontological and conceptual perspective)
(='lgc'>--> dogs follow consequences)
(indigenous thought is treated as a theoretical discourse on the ="trms">nature of reality ='lgc'>=/= an ="trms">interesting ="trms">interpretation of it)='lgc'>--> to take ="trms">seriously the indigenous ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of multi="trms">naturalism ='lgc'>[or ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] as a philosophical ="trms">intervention ='lgc'>: to trace out its effects on ='lgc'>[our='lgc'>] concepts

="large lg5" stl="font-size:115%">
multiculturalism='lgc'>: a single objective universe and many cultural ="trms">interpretations of it
multi="trms">naturalism='lgc'>: multiple universes and a single mode of ="trms">interpretation (="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perspective ='lgc'>=/= a differe[...]